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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Can you name the format you’re using to store 1:54:48 of music in 4.72 MB?

[–] Shihali 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Those are SPC files, and that particular example was one rip of Final Fantasy VI (III)'s soundtrack.

Unfortunately, it only handles music embedded in Super Famicom/Super Nintendo games. To convert your own music to SPC, you'd have to rewrite it for the SNES sound chip.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Shihali 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The even more efficient example was Mega Man 3. The standard rip format for NES music is far more efficient but also far more complex, requiring specialized skills to rip instead of a copy of ZSNES and a fast finger on the F1 button.

Edit: the standard rip format for NES music is NSF, but an expanded version NSFe is better if you can get it because it supports metadata like song names and lengths.

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